On Saturday 27 December 2008, Dvir Volk wrote: > why not plug them to the A/V out of the yes box? that's how i watch TV > on my machine. Are you saying that I'm wrong in assuming that my existing analogue cards won't work with YES?
> since you won't be able to tune anyway (apart from setting an IR > device to control the yes box), why waste money on new cards? OK - but as a YES subscriber, is there any way to tune from Linux? I use Xawtv and kdetv applications and with my current setup - HOT - I can choose channels from the application. Of course, today I don't have a HOT "MEMIR" but connect the TV cards directly to the wall socket (HOT antenna) and I do realize that as a YES subscriber, I would have to connect to the "MEMIR". > I doubt the quality difference is worth it. quality is not an issue - I just want to watch TV in a window, on a small part of the screen, while working, browsing etc. > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Shlomo Solomon > > <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Firstly, thanks to Ohad, Dvir and Geoffrey for answering. > > > > Secondly, I see from all three answers that my question was > > mis-understood, so I'll re-phrase. > > > > If I move from HOT to YES, I want to continue watching TV on the computer > > screen using a Linux friendly TV card. I'm referring to 3 cards for 3 > > seperate computers (not 3 signals to be handled by 1 computer). I don't > > intend to do anything illegal (bypassing encryption) - I would have a > > YES "MEMIR" next to each computer and the TV card would be fed from > > the "MEMIR". Since my existing TV cards are analogue only (and include a > > tuner), I now plug them into the HOT antenna plug and they work > > out-of-the-box. But that's obviously not going to be the case with YES > > digital signals. > > > > So to summarize, I'm looking for CHEAP, Linux friendy, YES friendly > > digital TV cards that can connect to the YES "MEMIR" and provide a TV > > signal on my Linux computers. > > > > Tanks again > > > > -- > > Shlomo Solomon > > http://the-solomons.net > > Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
